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History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Alfred de Vigny

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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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